So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack

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nginx/1.17.10 art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull 404 Not Found job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling

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your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety […]

Things have

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gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the

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nginx/1.17.10 White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of God. In those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative

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force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.”

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nginx/1.17.10 It was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

… when branding and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our

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concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken an opportunity

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nginx/1.17.10 to play league cricket in London. It was a chance for a young […]